I am having problems with the following DirectX games with my new Radeon 9700 Pro.
Master Rallye
Mafia
Strike Fighters
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
I am running the most current Catalyst 2.3 drivers from the ATI website (12/9/02), and I know that a specific patch was released for Mafia, but I am not using that since the Catalyst 2.3 drivers were released after this patch, and I presume they have incorporated the fix. It seems that each game will freeze in the same place. Here is a rundown of the problem in each game:
Master Rallye: This game works fine on most tracks, but one track in particular will freeze at exactly the same place (just as I approach a bridge). This suggests a problem with the DirectX driver when a certain combination of effects are drawn. I have to hard reset to clear the error.
Mafia will freeze with a black screen just before the user-interaction part of the game starts (after all the intros and menus). After about 10 seconds, both of my monitors actually shutdown to powersaving mode. On reboot I get a Windows XP message saying the the display drivers for the Radeon 9700 device caused the previous system instability.
Strike Fighters. This game does the same as Mafia.
Serious Sam 2 works fine in OpenGL, but if I try with DirectX it will freeze in some areas. It will always freeze as soon as I start the technology test level in DirectX mode.
Here are the details of my computer taken from Sandra Pro. - Rob
Processor(s)
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Speed : 1.33GHz
Model Number : 1333 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR1773 (estimated)
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC synchronous write-back
Mainboard and BIOS
Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI USB SMBus/i2c
MP Support : No
System BIOS : Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
Mainboard : <http://www.abit.com.tw> 8363-686A(KT7[A][-RAID],KT7E)
System Chipset : Abit Computer Corp KT7A Mainboard System Controller
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate)
Installed Memory : 512MB SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 1x 133MHz (133MHz data rate)
Video System
Desktop Monitors : 2
Monitor/Panel : Iiyama A201HT, VisionMaster Pro 510
Monitor/Panel : Dell 1501FP(Digital)
Adapter : RADEON 9700 Series
Adapter : RADEON 9700 Series - Secondary
Master Rallye
Mafia
Strike Fighters
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
I am running the most current Catalyst 2.3 drivers from the ATI website (12/9/02), and I know that a specific patch was released for Mafia, but I am not using that since the Catalyst 2.3 drivers were released after this patch, and I presume they have incorporated the fix. It seems that each game will freeze in the same place. Here is a rundown of the problem in each game:
Master Rallye: This game works fine on most tracks, but one track in particular will freeze at exactly the same place (just as I approach a bridge). This suggests a problem with the DirectX driver when a certain combination of effects are drawn. I have to hard reset to clear the error.
Mafia will freeze with a black screen just before the user-interaction part of the game starts (after all the intros and menus). After about 10 seconds, both of my monitors actually shutdown to powersaving mode. On reboot I get a Windows XP message saying the the display drivers for the Radeon 9700 device caused the previous system instability.
Strike Fighters. This game does the same as Mafia.
Serious Sam 2 works fine in OpenGL, but if I try with DirectX it will freeze in some areas. It will always freeze as soon as I start the technology test level in DirectX mode.
Here are the details of my computer taken from Sandra Pro. - Rob
Processor(s)
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Speed : 1.33GHz
Model Number : 1333 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR1773 (estimated)
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC synchronous write-back
Mainboard and BIOS
Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI USB SMBus/i2c
MP Support : No
System BIOS : Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
Mainboard : <http://www.abit.com.tw> 8363-686A(KT7[A][-RAID],KT7E)
System Chipset : Abit Computer Corp KT7A Mainboard System Controller
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate)
Installed Memory : 512MB SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 1x 133MHz (133MHz data rate)
Video System
Desktop Monitors : 2
Monitor/Panel : Iiyama A201HT, VisionMaster Pro 510
Monitor/Panel : Dell 1501FP(Digital)
Adapter : RADEON 9700 Series
Adapter : RADEON 9700 Series - Secondary